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I would say the devilfish likely just goes into area D8 during lowtide, making for a much tougher challenge if the pcs go into area D8 during lowtide.

Why does the Matron illustrated on page 44 have breasts? Sahaugin are essentially fish and don't nurse their young. At least it appears that way from the description of their lair and the fact that there are hundreds of fingerlings and thousands of eggs in the hatchery. I don't think every female character needs to be illustrated with breasts. Just makes me say "Why?"

I got this one and it is great. My only complaint is the picture of the Matron on page 44. Why does a female sahaugin have breasts? It's completely clear that Sahaugin reproduce like fish and they don't breast feed. There just isn't a good reason for it. Drives me crazy.

I have moved your AP#56 from order 2060905 to the pending order 2057743.

Note that 2057743 is awaiting the arrival of the Lini mini from distribution and the order will not ship out until it arrives. The order was placed on 5/6 with an estimated shipping time of 6 to 11 business days. Today is the 4th business day since that order was placed, so it should probably all go out next week sometime.

Thanks,
cos

Thanks Cosmo, I was just hoping that the order hadn't yet gone out so they could be combined.

I placed this order on Monday and it is still pending, order #2057743.
Today I see that the next Adventure Path is preparing to be shipped in order #2060905.

Is order #2057743 pending the release of the next AP so they can ship together? If it is not pending that release, can I combine them and have them all ship together?

I'm allowing any race, class, and alignment choices. My group of players are going to be a Nagaji Fighter(LN) and a Tian-Sing Magus(CG) who were pirates from Tian. Their ship was caught in a storm near Minata and destroyed. They popped out of the Eye of Abendego near the Shackles. They really have no idea where they are and have spent a month or so in the Shackles learning to speak common. Another will be a Goblin Oracle(CG) with the Tongues Curse but he thought of the Lame with Pegleg curse, a Daemon Spawned Tiefling Rogue Pirate(NE), and an Ulfen Witch(N). It should be lots of fun.

Papa-DRB wrote:

How do you know which NPC is which? Especially the "common" pirate ones? Are the names on them? or ?

-- david
Papa.DRB

Hi david, every character has their name directly underneath them on the pdf. And once they're cut out, I also label the underside of the bases so if anyone forgets who is who, you can just look underneath.

I found a few more problems after assembling everything this weekend. You are missing the named base for Jaundiced Jape, Pluck, 4 Grindylows, and 1 Dire Rat. There are two additional Giant Crab named bases though. If you get rid of the huge square on the last page of bases, there should be plenty of room to fit the missing ones!

I made due with what I had by flipping the extra Giant Crab bases and cutting out my own from scraps of cardstock. Unfortunately I had to print my own text on them, but it drives me crazy with my crappy hand printed "font" not matching the nice font you used!

I'd throw in my desire to get the optional Dwarf NPC added as well.

Also while assembling them I found that the fold line on the Captain Harrigan row is not centered properly. It's off by about 1/16 of a inch causing the base tabs to not line up.

Great work. I don't normally go for paper miniatures, but with all the great individuals in the crew I knew I wanted something more than just my normal collection of miniatures. As for the bases, while I prefer round bases on my traditional miniatures, I really appreciate the square bases on these as it takes probably half as long if not more to cut them out and assemble them.

Just one question. I'm having a hard time figuring out what the two larger swarm figs are for. I don't see anything in the adventure that calls for huge swarms of them. The red "fold" lines on them don't make sense to me as putting a cross shaped fold on them isn't going to do anything. What are these two for?

Too bad I couldn't have remained a subscriber. I had to cancle it and I've been going back and picking up copies over time when I had extra money. I'm sad to see it paused. I guess I need to pick up the last few copies I haven't yet purchased. Just to show how I do still support them.

Is it me, or if you want more goblins, going into a FLGS and pulling lower left will make you a happy buyer?

I've gotta agree with this. In my case I numbered my boxes 1-3 from left to right for the large boxes and 1-8 left to right for the middle row and 9-16 left to right for the bottom row.

All three of the Red Goblin boxes I got were in position 9 (some people call it position 12) or bottom left corner.

Both of the Blue Goblin boxes I got were in position 11 (14 by some people) or third one in from the bottom left.

The two Gnome Fighter and Dire Rat boxes I got were also in position 12(15 by some).

When position 9(12) and 11(14) weren't goblins, they were orcs.

There are some other positions that look promising for getting specific figs, but with only one case I can't be sure. I'm betting the red goblins position is probably a good bet though.

I was holding off on posting this as I know the offices were closed last week. That being said, I would have expected my shipment to get out the door by now, yet the tracking number for my order still shows that it hasn't yet arrived at the UPS facilities for shipment. I got the email on the 18th that it was going out. Have the shipments that were set up for shipping last week not yet gone out, or is there still a backup in your warehouses?

I've not been active on the forums in quite some time, but I got a bug to check things out recently. I'm truely surprised to see that people are continuing to use my work and add to it! I never realized the chorde this would strike with so many people! I'm happy that people like it and keep digging it up from the old stuff. Thanks everyone.

I want to have Order # 1814420 combined with Order # 1814328 so that I can save on shipping. I didn't have an option for it during checkout. I know that order 1814328 is a preorder and I'm ok with waiting until it arrives for the other items to ship. If combining them won't save on shipping any, it's ok to keep the orders separate.

Bonnie the Iconic Witch gets my vote.

Does anyone else see how this map is in error?

Unfortunately my budget no longer has room for gaming expenditures. I tried to get by with just the two subscriptions I have, but even that is too much. I need to cancel all my subscriptions.

Please cancel my Pathfinder Role Playing Game subscription after the Bestiary 2 ships.

Please cancel my Planet Stories subscription after Sojan the Swordsman & Under the Warrior Star ships.

Thanks for all the good entertainment.

I've rolled back the code that was causing the problem so you should be able to post new reviews now.

Thank you! This is most appreciated.

So what's up with the website? I was trying to write a review for The Walrus and the Warwolf. Every time I clicked on the Write a Review link it would take me back to the Planet Stories main page. I tried clicking on other books' Write a Review link and had the same thing happen? Is there something wrong with the code for the Reviews? I need to know! Obviously I am logged in as I'm posting this here!

I've set up a replacement for the two items. If you could send a digital image of the damaged items (including packaging if possible or relevant) to the address below that would be great.

thanks
sara marie

No problem, email and picture sent. Let me know if you'd like a different angle.

Alright, trying this again because something seems messed up on my first post. Clicking the link to the topic takes you back to the Customer Service forum.

Anyway, I received this order and to my dismay two of the books are damaged. The Adventure Path #36 and the Advanced Players Guide look like someone took them and smashed the top right corner of them down on a table top or the floor. They are both folded over and crushed. The Planet Stories is undamaged. I'd like to know what I need to do to get these exchanged for undamaged ones. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

I got my order today and the Adventure Path #36 and the Advanced Players Guide look like someone took them and slammed the top right corner of them down on a table and crushed them. They are both folded and crushed out of shape. The Planet Stories is undamaged. How do I go about exchanging them?

We use 22 points, yeah its in between the two, but its what we like. For us 25 points gets you just a bit too much, but 20 points is just a bit low. As my group varies in how much background they like to put into their characters, a well developed background with a few page story about the background will net and extra point to spend. We also like 3 traits.

Sorry, just recently sold an extra copy on eBay, about a week before you posted this.

Everytime in the past, when I offered it here, nobody ever took me up on the offer. Don't know why nobody was interested, but everyone in the threads bemoaned that they couldn't find a copy and didn't want to pay high prices for it. So to eBay it went, where I knew it would sell.

My son's group, after having made friends with Mr. Vancaskerson and cleaned out the level, is about to enter the lower level of Thistletop.

I am having a problem with the link between the Hook Mountain Massacre and Fortress of the Stone Giants.

Namely, if the PCs get settled in Fort Rannick, and actually try to be responsible lords, they might be reluctant to up and travel 450 miles back to Magnimar/Sandpoint. Amoung other things, they may - understandably - feel obligated to stay and protect Turtleback Ferry.

I know that this has come up in other threads, but I would be much obliged if someone can point me to where this problem has been addressed?

If I'm not mistaken, at this point in the AP, Fort Rannick isn't under any immediate danger. It wouldn't be until Sand Point is sacked and Mokmurian's army starts mobilizing that it would be in danger. In this case the best defense is a good offense. If they go to Sandpoint and stop his forces there they reduce the chances of him attacking Fort Rannick. They can then take the fight to him as the AP has them do.

Also if their characters were built with any ties at all to Sandpoint, they should feel an obligation to return and help out. If they've done their work properly they should have someone they can leave behind in charge of the operations at the fort. If the fort isn't yet able to be self-sufficient without the pcs there, perhaps it is too early to spring Fortress of the Stone Giants on them?

I'd like to cancel my Adventure Path subscription after the last issue of Kingmaker. I don't want to start the new Serpent's Skull AP. I have to reign in my spending, and unfortunately this is the one to get the cut. I hope this isn't a problem as they both are sheduled to ship at the same time.

Boy do I feel silly now. I never thought to look on the product page. I was looking at the top of the My Downloads page where I expected to see them.

Thanks for getting these uploaded!

So any word on this? Will it be possible?

Mordekai,

I've got an extra copy of Rise of the Runelords #1, Burnt Offerings. Its a little worn from use, but otherwise in really good condition. I may be able to get a copy of 3 and 5 as well, but there is no guarantee on that. I'll have to check with my local store. If you are interested send me an email at prozinskij@yahoo.com. I'm not looking to make a profit off them.

The tried and true human runner.

I thought of that, but in the end I don't feel it applies. Most of those happen after the AP starts, and are ostensibly corrected by the pcs. To truely qualify for the cursed disadvantage, the curse really shouldn't be able to be resolved, at least not easily.

As an example, the Curse disdvantage would apply more to Korvosa with the Crimson Throne curse. That's what qualifies for a curse in my opinion. Just because all these things happen over the course of the AP doesn't make it cursed, at least not in my opinion.

Ah, see as I said, I didn't know that. I haven't even had a chance to read the rules. I've got my pdf here so let me see. Let's do this.

We already know most of the information for Sandpoint, so we only need to plug the information in. Some items are debatable.

According to the new rules Sandpoint counts as a small town with 201-2,000 people. Which grants Modifiers 0, 2 Qualities, Danger 0, a Base Value of 1,000 gp, a purchase limit of 5,000 gp, and 4th level spell casting. It also gives a magic item base value of 1,000 gp, 3d4 minor items, 1d6 medium items, and 0 major items.

Sandpoint is NG, so +1 Lore and +1 Society.

I'd say their government could count as an autocracy, but could count as a council even though they have a mayor. No modifiers if it counts as an autocracy, +4 Society and -2 Law and Lore if its a council. For my purposes I'll go with autocracy.

For Qualities I'd say Sandpoint has the following, but we'd have to remove one to fit the rules.

* I'd say it counts as a Holy Site with the new multi-denominational temple opening. Corruption -2, and spellcasting increase by 2 levels. The higher spellcasting may be a problem as Sandpoint was originally developed with old community design rules. Either that or we can bump up levels to account for this.

* Strategic Location or Prosperous, both could apply, but I think these are bigger than what Sandpoint is. For my purposes I'll cut these for now, but good future choices. Economy +1, increase base value by 10% or Economy +1; increase base value by 30%; increase purchase limit by 50%

* Tourist Attraction, again the lighthouse and the swallowtail festival make Sandpoint a Tourist attraction. Economy +1, increase base value by 20%

* I don't think the Turandarok Acedemy qualifies for a Academic, perhaps in the future when Sandpoint gets bigger.

I don't think Sandpoint qualifies for any disadvantages as they shouldn't given very often as they are typically really bad things. Reading through the example disadvantages Sandpoint doesn't seem to meet any of them.

This gives us the following.

Sandpoint
NG, Small Town, Danger: 0
Modifiers
Corruption: -2, Crime: 0, Economy: 1, Law: 0, Lore: 1, Society: 1
Qualities
Holy Site
Tourist Attraction
Disadvantages
None
Demographics
Autocracy (Mayor)
Popluation: 1,240 (90% human, 3% halfling, 2% dwarf, 2% elf, 1% half-elf, 1% gnome, 1% half-orc)
Market Place
Base Value: 1,200 gp, Purchase Limit: 5,000 gp, Spell Casting: 6th Level
Minor Items: 3d4, Medium Items, 1d6

The new marketplace numbers really change Sandpoint from what it was. According to these rules, this makes a richer Sandpoint than what it used to be. In Burnt Offerings it lists the following for Sandpoint. Would the base value increases also apply to the magic item base values? It seems to me the way all the items phrase it, that it applies to both normal and magic item base price.

Sandpoint
Small Town conventional (mayor); AL NG
GP Limit 800 gp; Assets 49,600 gp
Population 1,240
Type Isolated (90% human, 3% halfling, 2% dwarf, 2% elf, 1% half-elf, 1% gnome, 1% half-orc)

Basing it on the old purchase limit of 800gp, Sandpoint would be between Thorp and Hamlet size in the GMG.

Hmm, it looks like it is easier than I thought. The quibbles come from what qualities and disadvantages a community has.

For the most part yes, they do write themselves, especially the Notable NPCs, Locations, and Groups/Factions, but what about their Modifiers and Marketplace items? Sure I can make an edjucated guess as to what Sandpoint's Corruption, Crime, Economy, and Law, et al, should be. Whatever I came up with would be good for my campaign, but I'm interested in what other people think. What about the designers, what do they feel it should be? Obviously Sandpoint will have a Crime rating of greater than zero, I think, as they specifically point out Jubrayl, but how high would it actually be? Other than pointing him out in the first book he doesn't come up anymore in the AP.

I've hardly had time to even look at the books the last couple weeks. Did you make any progress on these? I'd be interested in seeing what you've come up with.

Well that sucks. I guess I waited just a little too long to order that flip-mat. Fortunately I was able to find it somewhere else. Thanks.

This order has been pending since June 9th and my subscription order has come up and gone to pending and subsiquently to shipped. I received it last week, but order #1425384 is still pending. Is there something holding it up? None of these are subscription items and they actually should have gone out with my subscription as I have my items set to hold for monthly shipment and I placed this order in May. Are these now holding in pending for next month's shipment?

I wouldn't say they are alone at the top. I think the Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader books are just as high production quality. Aces & Eights is also right up there, maybe even just a little bit higher. I'm not dissing Paizo in the slightest, but there are plenty that are just as good.

Will Paizo make the Gamemastery Guide Forms available as an unwatermarked download, like they have with the character sheet? I've got the pdf for the guide, but I'd like to print them out with out my watermark. Hey, it really bothers me! It just throws the whole look of the sheet off.

I played a duelist in an old 3.5 campaign. My GM had the current bad guy, a big Orc, sunder my Rapier. I was really mad at the time. I'd spent all my money on the masterwork Rapier, and I only had a short sword for backup. I thought it was unfair, because I was so specialized to fight with a Rapier and Short sword, especially in the situation.

We were in the middle of a big forest, far from civilization, and the Orc wasn't even a big bad end guy, but became a minor reoccuring villian. So I had to struggle through the next three or so sessions using a rusty hand axe I'd picked up off a dead Orc, until we could get back to civilization and I could get a new one. I don't remember why, but we couldn't repair it either. We were pretty low level at the time. It really made it hard on us.

For this reason I think you need be careful when you use the tactic. It can really make for some hurt feelings, if used in the wrong circumstances. I was really mad at my GM for a while, when he did it. His reasoning for having the NPC sunder the weapon was valid, but I just felt it was a poor choice as GM in our situation. Least of all because I was really sucking with axe and it made it harder on us because I couldn't hit as well with the axe. Had he done it when I had better access to replace it or fix it, I'd have been upset, but not mad like I was. It would have made the Orc a really good personal villian of my character. As it was I didn't have a strong feeling towards the NPC, just the tactic. I didn't connect with him like I should have.

I struggle with it as in the Rise of the Runelords AP, using Shatter is a trick that is repeatedly gone to with the NPCs. In general the characters have good access to facilities to recover from it, but I still don't like that it is used so much. I don't like using it on my group, but that would require reworking the tactics on some of the villians so that they are still a challenge.

So now that the Game Mastery Guide is out, does anyone have plans to do the community sheets for all the towns and cities in the RotRL campaign? Or is this something they are going to put into the updated Campaign Setting book?

There are so few Stone Giant miniatures on the market that I think Reaper really needs to do a sculpt for Mokmurian. It'd just be nice to have some more Stone Giants.

There are lots of threads on this topic though. I think many of them just address specific characters/miniatures though.

So I was looking around the site today when I went to the Store. I clicked on Games > Role Playing Games so I could see the list of games you have available.

Low and behold it looks like you've got all the WotC products which you aren't allowed to sell, along with the number of items you have for those games. For example, it lists Alternity (22). So you click on them and it takes you to the product page where you have nothing listed. While I understand that you aren't allowed to sell those items anymore, at least the pdfs anyway, it could give some false hopes. I'm assuming that you guys were allowed to sell pdfs at one time and this is why you still have the products listed.

I think this should be fixed so that you don't even see the products listed on the index page in the first place. Either that or fix it so that it doesn't show you have items, which aren't there once you go to the product page.

I'm at work and can't download the file, but I was looking through the last page of the thread. In looking at the Stage Magician, I have a question about the Magic Cabinet. Obviously the inspiration for it's drawback comes from "The Prestige". As this is a teleportation chamber that teleports the subject from one to the other, what happens when the Clone is created? Does the original one not teleport and the Clone is formed in the second cabinet? Altenately, does the clone also get created in the second along with the source one? Or does the Clone go somewhere else entirely?

Jason Nelson wrote:

Christopher Dudley wrote:

In times of chaos, we must ask ourselves, "What would Al Swearengen do?"

I have no idea who that is, but presumably a not-nice sort of person, so I think I can infer the meaning.

Al Swearengen of Deadwood fame would probably first call him a c**ksucker, and then put a bullet in his head.

I don't know about that. Al was a smart cookie. He recognized that you can only get money from a dead man one time. A properly subdued man will keep paying you money for the rest of his life. Now if said subdued many were to grow a pair of b*!!& and find the wherewithall to question the reason for paying said funds, he may have to kill the uppity c**ksucker and take his money.

I'm sure someone will come along and post it, but you could always go to the product page for each set and look at the full sized images of the samples from the sets. They show the symbols there.

I don't feel that the magic system is bad, I really do like the system. I just feel that it doesn't quite fit the One Power as described in the novels. I just can't quite put my finger on what that is. Maybe this means its as good as it needs to be, I don't know.

That is too bad. Most people don't know that he had a history of strokes and in his 60's he had a real bad one that caused him to pretty much loose the use of his right hand. This was bad as he was right handed. In order to keep painting and drawing he taught himself to use his left hand so that he could keep working. He said his talent didn't come from his had, it came from being able to see what he wanted to paint. It was just a matter of teaching himself to put it down on canvas with his left hand. A truly amazing master of the art who will be greatly missed. Some of my favorite paintings are done by him.

LeadPal, I am truely impressed that someone has taken my work and expanded on it like this. That is very cool. Not exactly what I had pictured, but it fits my description and is awesome none the less.

Yeah, people do it to reduce spam, but it doesn't matter to me. I'm going to get spam no matter what I do and my spam filter catches nearly everything anyway. Going through all the effort won't stop a good bot either. People know how to program to recognize most of these attempts to stop them, so it doesn't do any good. I also have a gmail account, two minutes after setting it up, I already had 20 spam messages. I hadn't even posted it anywhere or sent an email from it.

Majuba let me know, I'm only looking for one of each.

Evan, if Majuba doesn't come up with the cards I'll go ahead and deal with you for the Spiked Chain. I unfortunately only have one of each of the cards you are looking for. All my numbers for what I have to trade are based on those which I have more than two of. If I had even two of these I'd hook you up. That being said, if there is anything you'd like to get multiples of, I'd like to at least get you something for your efforts. As for the hard case, I don't think I have any either, but we can work something out.